Category: Award Winner

Posted in Award Winner Fiction Trans

The Thirty Names Of Night by Zeyn Joukhadar

The Thirty Names Of Night | Zeyn Joukhadar | Five years after a suspicious fire killed his ornithologist mother, a closeted Syrian American trans boy sheds his birth name and searches for a new o

Posted in Award Winner Black Interest Fiction

Butter Honey Pig Bread by Francesca Ekwuyasi

Butter Honey Pig Bread | Francesca Ekwuyasi | Spanning three continents, Butter Honey Pig Bread tells the interconnected stories of three Nigerian women: Kambirinachi and her twin daughters, Keh

Posted in Award Winner Horror Speculative Fiction

Gideon The Ninth by Tamsyn Muir

Gideon The Ninth | Tamsyn Muir | The Emperor needs necromancers.

The Ninth Necromancer needs a swordswoman.

Gideon has a sword, some dirty magazines, and no more tim

Posted in Award Winner LGBT Studies/Social Sciences

Visibility Interrupted by Carly Thomsen

Visibility Interrupted | Carly Thomsen | Today most LGBTQ rights supporters take for granted the virtue of being “out, loud, and proud.” Most also assume that it would be terrible to be LGBTQ

Posted in Award Winner Black Interest Trans

Black On Both Sides by C. Riley Snorton

Black On Both Sides | C. Riley Snorton | The story of Christine Jorgensen, Americas first prominent transsexual, famously narrated trans embodiment in the postwar era. Her celebrity, however,

Posted in Award Winner Fiction

The Life And Death of Sophie Stark by Anna North

Anna North | The Life And Death of Sophie Stark | “It’s hard for me to talk about love. I think movies are the way I do that,” says Sophie Stark, a visionary and unapologetic filmmaker. She uses stori

Posted in Award Winner Fiction

The Life And Death of Sophie Stark by Anna North

Anna North | The Life And Death of Sophie Stark | 9 parts 7 hours 49 minutes “It’s hard for me to talk about love. I think movies are the way I do that,” says Sophie Stark, a visionary and unapologe

Posted in Award Winner Fiction

Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf

Virginia Woolf | Mrs. Dalloway | ‘Fear no more the heat of the sun.’ Mrs Dalloway, Virginia Woolf’s fourth novel, offers the reader an impression of a single June day in London in 192

Posted in Award Winner Literary Criticism

Really Reading Gertrude Stein by Gertrude Stein; Judy Grahn

Gertrude Stein; Judy Grahn | Really Reading Gertrude Stein | This book is organized into three sections, each beginning with an essay that clarifies the following selections, usually in excerpted form, from Stei

Posted in Award Winner Romance

If the Shoe Fits by E.J. Noyes

E.J. Noyes | If the Shoe Fits | Jana Fleischer loves her life–wonderful family, best sister in the world, awesome soon to be sister-in-law, fabulous job, and a never-ending stream o